But whatever necessity might hide or excuse or palliate, in the acquisition of power, a wise nation, when it has once made a revolution upon its own principles and for its own ends, rests there.
Burke asserts that a wise nation should stabilize its power after a revolution based on its own principles.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
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